AU Age Verification Tomorrow (plus YAMDCC update)

9 Dec, 2025

There is less than one day left until Australia's social media ban for under-16s comes into effect. I have already gone over my own opinions on this topic in another blog post, but in short, I am not against the ban itself, but I am against how it's going to be enforced. Because of this, there is a small chance that I will disappear off of many services tomorrow that I use, but to my knowledge I should be fine for now.

If I don't make another blog post tomorrow... we had a good run (or I forgor lol). Fuck AI/government ID age verification.

The YAMDCC update

You may have (once again) noticed the lack of activity on my YAMDCC repository. I know you're all looking forward to new features, but even without AI Age Verification™ screwing up everything, I have completely lost interest in continuing YAMDCC development. Sorry about that.

If anyone else wants to take over development, I will have a pinned issue on the Codeberg repository that you can reply to, or alternatively you can try contacting me directly via Matrix (assuming I'm not banned from it, but considering Discord is somehow avoiding being banned - at least for now, I should be fine on Matrix which is similar).

Other than just general disinterest in me continuing development of YAMDCC, as mentioned before, I want to get away from Windows soon (and have already installed Linux on a secondary laptop of mine), and in fact announced a few months ago that I wouldn't be accepting new features. The amount of work needed for a Linux port of YAMDCC outweighs the fact that many Linux projects that do most of what YAMDCC does already exist, and so I will most likely start using one of those projects instead when I do eventually leave Windows.